CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE. 



Blacking for shoes, for harness, in Household 

 Hints, 795. 



Blackstone, writer on law, 57, 164. 



Blake, painter, 164. 



Block-books, in Wood-engraving, 769. 



Bliicher, 169. 



Blumenbach's classification of mankind, 3. 



Boadicea, Queen, 130. 



Board of Supervision, in Poor-laws, 506. 



Bodhimanda, 428. 



Bceotia, 81. 



Bohmerwald, range of mountains, 217. 



Boleyn, Anne, 138. 



Bolivia, republic of, 325. 



Bombay presidency, 285. 



Bonaire, island of, 336. 



Bonaparte, 165-169. 



Bonapartist dynasty, expulsion of the, 174. 



Bonspiel, a, in curling, 667. 



Bopp's, Franz, Comparative Grammar, 18. 



Bottles, how to clean, 789. 



Bottle-wax, in Household Hints, 795. 



Bourbon, island of, 290. 



Bowides, the, 122. 



Brachycephalic, skulls, 7, 9. 



Brahma, 424. 



Brahmans, the, 423. 



Brahmaputra, 274. 



Brass and copper, how to clean, 788. 



Bray, Lough, 267. 



Brazil, empire of, 327. 



Breath, how to keep fresh, 799. 



Bremen, free town of, 219. 



Breton, Cape, 311. 



Bridgetown, capital of Barbadoes, 333. 



Bridgewater Canal, 233. 



Brighton, 239. 



Brisbane, 302. 



Bristol, description of, 236. 



BRITAIN, GREAT, HISTORY OF, 129-176; conquest 

 by the Romans, 129 ; by the Saxons, 130 ; by the 

 Normans, 132 ; Christianity introduced, 131, 

 132; union of England and Scotland, 156; 

 acquisitions, 161 ; war with France, 165 ; with 

 America in 1812, 169; with China, 173; with 

 Russia, 173 ; with India, 174; with Abyssinia, 

 174; with Ashantee, 174; constitution of, 177- 

 192 ; government, 177 ; laws, 181 ; church, 182; 

 education, 184; finances, 186; agriculture, 

 commerce,, and industry, 188 ; mines and rail- 

 ways, 189; shipping, 190; monetary system, 

 191 ; colonies and dependencies, 191 ; social 

 statistics, 192. 



British Association, the, 176. 



British constitution, 42. 



British subjects, privileges of, 177. 



Britons, the, 131. 



Broad Church, 404. 



Brochs, borgs, or Pictish towers, in Archaeology, 

 732. 



Bronte*, Charlotte, 176. 



Bronze Age, in Archaeology, 721. 



Brough, in curling, 667. 



Brown, Thomas, philosopher, 170. 



Brownies, 440. 



Browning, Robert and Mrs, 176. 



Bruce, King Robert Bruce, 135. 



Bruges, town, 221. 



Brunswick, duchy of, 219. 



Brussels, capital of Belgium, 221. 



Buchanan, Robert, 176. 



SO* 



Buddha, 428 ; teeth of, 432. 



BUDDHISM, 427-432. 



Buddhism in China, 68 ; in Japan, 68. 



Buenos Ayres, 326. 



Building societies, 526. 



Bullion, 487. 



Bundesrath, 219. 



Bunions, how to treat, 800. 



Bunker's Hill, 162. 



Bunyan, John, 152. 



Burgerschule of Prussia, 223. 



Burials, in Anthropology, 4. 



Burmah, British, 282. 



Bunnah Proper, or kingdom of Ava, 285. 



Burman language, 29. 



Burmese, in Anthropology, 4. 



Burns, Robert, 164. 



Burra-Burra copper-mines, 301. 



Burton, discoveries by, 296. 



Bute, island of ; Kyles of Bute, 249. 



Butler, Dr Joseph, 161. 



Butler, Samuel, 152. 



Byron, 170. 



Cabinet Council of Britain, 46; its duties, 177, 



181. 



Cables, submarine, 176. 

 Cabul, 277. 



Caers, in Archaeology, 732. 

 Caesar, Caius Julius, 112, 129. 

 Caicos, islands, 335. 

 Cairn, in Archaeology, 734. 

 Cairo, 294. 



Calcutta, 283 ; Black Hole of, 283. 

 Caledonian Canal, the, 250. 

 Caledonians or Picts, 130. 

 California, Gulf of, 306; state, 316. 

 Califs, the, 116. 

 Callao, 324. 



Calotype or Talbotype, art of, 777- 

 Calvinistic or Reformed churches, 403. 

 Cambodia, 286. 



Cambodians, in Anthropology, 4. 

 Camboja, the river, 274. 

 Cambridge, description of, 237. 

 Cambyses, 80. 



Camera-obscura, in Photography, 778. 

 Cameroon Mountains, 290. 

 Campbell, poet, 170. 

 Campbell, Sir Colin, Lord Clyde, 174. 

 Camper, facial angle of, 2. 

 Camperdown, 165. 

 Canada, Dominion of, 309-315. 

 Canada, union of provinces of, 173. 

 Canarese language in India, 282. 

 Canaries, the, 290. 

 Candahar, 277. 



Candlemas-day, origin of, 450. 

 Canister-shot, 202. 

 Canning's administration, 171. 

 Cannon, Armstrong gun, Fraser gun, 202. 

 Cannoning, in billiards, 680. 

 Canon, developed into fugue, in Music, 709. 

 Canon law, the, 53. 



Canon, of Old Testament, 386 ; of New Testa- 

 ment, 394. 



Canterbury, description of, 239. 

 Canterbury, New Zealand, 303. 

 Canton, 288. ; 



Cantons of Switzerland, 126. 

 Cape Coast Castle, 292. 



